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Any Mac users - My desktop image, dock and top nav bars are floating around as my mouse moves over the monitor

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brokenbiscuits · 04/07/2008 11:30

How do I fix it?

Hard to explain but never seen this before.
I can see the dock at the bottom, but only if I scroll my mouse down to it, it moves up into view. By doing that, the top part whizzes off the top edge out of view. Same thing happens side to side.

Only about 1cm movement, in and out. I have tried the monitor settings but no use.

I am on third mug of coffee and its not helping. Any ideas?

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Prufrock · 04/07/2008 13:45

OOh rubberduck I never knew you were a mac queen - can you help me with a problem my apple store can't fix? Is there a way to make my google search in the safari toolbar use google.co.uk rather than .com? I am sick and tired of getting pages based in Cambridge Mass. rather than Cambrige UK

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RubberDuck · 04/07/2008 13:48

Hmm.... not sure ... hang on will have a rummage.

Alternatively, you could set up an igoogle page as your home page?

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Prufrock · 04/07/2008 13:50

What, instead of Mumsnet?!?

I do have google set up as a toolbar bookmark, but it's not as neat and I feel that hugo (my iMac) should be able to do anything I want him to

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RubberDuck · 04/07/2008 13:50

Okay doesn't look like you can in Safari, but Firefox 3 for Mac allows you to specify which search engine you want to use. Does that help?

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RubberDuck · 04/07/2008 13:50

(and I was a big Safari fan, but I have rather fallen in love with Firefox 3)

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Prufrock · 04/07/2008 13:52

I take it you use Firefox then? I did on my PC, but I like safari for stuff like being able to mail a whole page. Why did you switch (I'm completely prepared to be swayed by your superior technical knowledge )

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RubberDuck · 04/07/2008 13:52

And actually, my Firefox 3 seems to be set to google.co.uk by default (maybe I set a location preference somewhere)

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RubberDuck · 04/07/2008 13:55

I switched because I wanted to play with the new Firefox - I may switch back in a bit though... depends if it's more stable than Firefox 2 (was constantly force quitting that on mac).

I generally like the freedom of having different plugins which Safari doesn't support. I'm not sure that one is necessarily technically better than the other, tbh. You just end up using the one that suits your way of browsing the best.